It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director has run a one-off game, but if Hamlet were written last year and had been only performed once as a film, and it didn't come off well on screen for whatever reason, it would be gone forever as a literary work, and never would have been considered as one.